Severe outbreak of winter is being seen in North India at this time due to which dense fog also occurs daily. This fog causes the death of thousands of people every year. In fact, thousands of people die every year in road accidents caused by fog. A recent report has been released by the Ministry of Transport of the Central Government, which states that in 2021, 13,372 people lost their lives in accidents due to fog. Here the maximum number of deaths have been reported in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from this, what other information was given in this report, we are going to tell you.
Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Recently released its report for 2021 which states that 13,372 people lost their lives in road accidents due to fog. this report road accidents in india 2021 Issued in the name of Also, 25,360 people have been reported injured in such accidents. The highest death toll has been found in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in which fog caused the death of 3,782 people in UP alone. After that 1800 people died in such accidents in Bihar, which is the second highest figure after UP. In Madhya Pradesh, 1233 people died in such road accidents.
At the same time, there were some areas in which not even a single person lost his life due to fog. These include Goa, Lakshadweep and Andaman Nicobar. It has been said in the report that every year 45 lakhs in India road accident There are About 1.5 million people die in these. 9% of the deaths have been attributed to road accidents due to fog.
Uttar Pradesh has reported the highest number of such deaths. Not only this, if we talk about cities, then most cases of loss of lives have also come to the fore in the cities of UP. These include the names of Kanpur (173), Agra (108), Prayagraj (97), Ghaziabad (91) and Lucknow (67), Varanasi (56). In Bihar’s capital Patna, 56 people have been reported to have died in 2021 due to fog. Along with this, it has also been said in the report that there is a need to make people aware to prevent such accidents.
